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Adil

#2,641 in 2025Boys' name

To make (someone) equal (بِ (bi) to), through عَادِل

Adil has been given to 1,553 babies in the U.S. since 1973. In 2025 it ranked #2,641 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 49 recorded.

Babies named Adil, 2025

1 in 67,700

Adil over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Adil: meaning, origin, and history

To make (someone) equal (بِ (bi) to), through عَادِل

Arabic

What Adil means

Adil belongs to the name family reached through Adil → عَادِل. Its meaning is “to make (someone) equal (بِ (bi) to)”.

Origin, language, and formation

Adil is used in Albanian, Azerbaijani and Turkish. Its origins include Arabic.

Adil comes through Arabic عَادِل.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include عَادِل.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,553 boys were recorded with the name Adil between 1973 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 49 in 2025; its best national rank was #2,094 in 1997.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,075 in 2020 to #2,641 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank held the same position, from #2,641 in 2015 to #2,641 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Adil?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 67,700
49 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 34,900
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,641
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
46,897 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Adil sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 46,897 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Adil. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Adils were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Adil was born before 2006 — so the typical Adil is around 19 today.

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
26.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
65.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,553
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 26.2% of all recorded uses (407).

Is Adil rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+519
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+434
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
±0
No change
Births vs 10 years ago
1.07×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (49)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
14.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,094
1997

Spellings of Adil

Adil is not the most common spelling — Adam is, with 43.0% against Adil's 0.11%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Adil is used

Across 1910–2025, Adil was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 147,003 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 50,000
  2. 2California1 in 100,000
  3. 3Illinois1 in 100,000
  4. 4Minnesota1 in 100,000
  5. 5New Jersey1 in —
  6. 6Ohio1 in —
  7. 7Texas1 in —
  8. 8Virginia1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Adil has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Adil around the world

Where Adil ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #845
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1982–2017
    #733
    in 2017
  • Ireland
    2025–2025
    #676
    in 2025
  • France
    1971–2025
    #525
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #448
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,536
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2003–2013
    #499
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Adil by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,641
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 434
Best rank ever
#2,094
1997
Peak year
2025
49 that year
First recorded
1973
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,553
Count in 2025
49

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Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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